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Information Skills

This is a presentation given at the sub-librarians meeting in Jordanstown on Wednesday, 5 August 2009. It describes the Viewpoints project in Jordanstown, gives an overview and walkthrough of the proposed Information Skills tool and tells how the librarians can help influence tool development.

Outputs will look similar to A&amp;F outputs – but content for these is still to be confirmed.

Outputs will look similar to A&amp;F outputs – but content for these is still to be confirmed.

What sort of task is it the student will need the information skills for – e.g assignment, seminar, essay, tutorial etc What sort of resources will they need e.g. book, journal articles, websites etc Is it an individual or a group task

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Background to tool <ul><li>Help to create information skills strategy for course design </li></ul><ul><li>Let staff see how info skills load is spread throughout the course for students </li></ul><ul><li>Help staff fill in Ulster forms – new courses, revalidation, etc </li></ul><ul><li>Help them reflect on what info skills are like from student perspective </li></ul><ul><li>Help staff to organise strategy step by step – give them blueprint </li></ul><ul><li>Inspire with new ideas on how to implement information skills </li></ul><ul><li>Improve communication – teaching staff + library </li></ul><ul><li>Direct staff to relevant info skills information and resources – library checklists, online information skills training, etc. </li></ul>Aim of this tool

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Background to tool <ul><li>New course design/accreditation </li></ul><ul><li>Revising a course or a module </li></ul><ul><li>Course revalidation (3 main uses) </li></ul><ul><li>Secondary uses – new staff induction (staff development), using with students to tell them what they need to know </li></ul><ul><li>Library could use with students to model how their info skills will need to develop/progress throughout course </li></ul><ul><li>Main users – module co-ordinators/staff working on curriculum </li></ul><ul><li>Possible secondary users – staff thinking about information need for library, library staff demonstrating skills to students </li></ul>Potential uses of the tool

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Tool walkthrough <ul><li>Earlier stage than Assessment and Feedback tool – start of process </li></ul><ul><li>Not gone through different iterations of development yet </li></ul><ul><li>Need to have many conversations with interested parties (such as subject librarians and module coordinators) </li></ul><ul><li>Redevelop content based on your advice/feedback </li></ul><ul><li>Need to reword SCONUL principles and decide on practical examples </li></ul><ul><li>Current examples – based on work done by Peter Godwin, London South Bank University (mapping SCONUL principles to student benchmarks – what should students be able to do) </li></ul>How you can help

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Future decisions/choices <ul><li>Content </li></ul><ul><li>Can we use Peter Godwin benchmarks – or is there a better source for examples? </li></ul><ul><li>Do you have more suggestions as to desirable content? </li></ul><ul><li>What resources should be included in outputs? </li></ul><ul><li>Where do library checklists go – in Resources section or elsewhere? </li></ul><ul><li>What about the task options – are they correctly worded? </li></ul><ul><li>Is content practical/useful for course creators/librarians? </li></ul><ul><li>Technical etc </li></ul><ul><li>Is interface intuitive/easy for users to grasp without instructions? </li></ul><ul><li>Display of information on screen – is it readable? </li></ul>Questions you can help with

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Future decisions/choices <ul><li>Ning area invites – comment online </li></ul><ul><li>Requests for feedback via email </li></ul><ul><li>Working group – short 121 meetings – discuss aspects of interface </li></ul><ul><li>Several iterations until the tool is developed (content, usability, testing etc) </li></ul><ul><li>Hopefully get a tool that will be useful for librarians and module co-ordinators. </li></ul>How to proceed